Well - speaking as someone who bought each of the Tomy imports from StarWarsShop.com - I'm still kinda glad that I did.

Looks like the base/stand that shipped with the Japanese versions has been dropped from the packaging.

While a base/stand doesn't seem like much of a big deal, the great thing about it in this case is that it has a spot to hold the lightsaber handle remote. This way, if you display your open stuff, the remote rests neatly next to your remote control droid.

I guess this is one of the ways they're keeping the price on these down.

Still think I'm going to pass and add these to the list of stuff "I've already got and don't need the packaging variants" that I am passing on now due to space considerations

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Nice r2d2, a bit larger than hasbro votc, I would be prepared to pay maximum 15 bucks for it.

I live by one of the Targets that sells basic figs for $8.79 so maybe these will be cheaper else where, but when I put the numbers for these into the scanner they come up $16.99. At that price I think I'm only getting the R5-X? since "he" is the only character of these I don't have any version of.

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I'm pretty excited for these actually. I held off buying the imports because of the price + shipping. I really wanted the R5 but not at the cost. Now though, I'll gladly nab any unique one I can find. I'll deal with the price happily enough... Love my R2-D2, and these have me pretty pumped for the rest of the crew.

Has there been any word on whether R4-P17 will be part of the assortment? Are there any others besides that one that aren't listed in the Hasbro slide?

I haven't seen R4 listed, but I wouldn't be surprised if Hasbro planned on releasing all of them at some point as long as Target continues to give them the peg space. The only one I wouldn't expect to see is the clear R2-D2, but I would think all of the movie ones are fair game.

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Peter

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I was just over at Target.com, and I noticed that these are in stock and shipping in 24 hours there. I haven't seen these at retail (and I don't think they've been found anywhere yet), but I thought I'd pass it along if anyone was interested in picking them up online.

SWShop is selling the Japanese versions for $20-$25 plus shipping, so $17 for these current versions at Target is a "fair" price. Not "cheap" by any means, but cheaper than the original RotS/30AC Japanese versions.

SWShop is selling the Japanese versions for $20-$25 plus shipping, so $17 for these current versions at Target is a "fair" price. Not "cheap" by any means, but cheaper than the original RotS/30AC Japanese versions.

Even on sale at SWShop I don't think they got below $15. They are definitely cool and I'm not returning mine, but I couldn't help but feel a wee bit screwed paying over $70 for four little packages.

They are definitely cool and I'm not returning mine, but I couldn't help but feel a wee bit screwed paying over $70 for four little packages.

That's why I plan on getting the ones that I'm interested in one at a time.

I've only picked up R5-X2 so far (he's the only one I've seen). Despite the price, I think these are very cool and they're definitely neat additions to the collection. I wouldn't mind a couple more waves to pick and choose droids from.